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1) Beach strip
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"I'd rather laugh in bad taste than cry in good taste." That's how Josie Marshall deals with the death of her detective husband, Gabe, found naked outside their home on the beach with a bullet in his brain. Everyone calls it suicide. Josie knows it isn't . . . but fears it could be. After all, she had provided Gabe with a motive. The clues are so strong that even Josie begins to believe Gabe shot himself. But when a horrific slaying occurs literally...
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Jack Reacher novels volume 17
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Reacher is back. "Worth Dying For" ends with the following sentence: "Reacher walked under the bridge and set up on the eastbound ramp, one foot on the shoulder and one in the traffic lane, and he stuck out his thumb and smiled and tried to look friendly." This novel picks up six minutes later - and it's a Reacher rollercoaster ride no reader will ever forget.
3) Far north
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Minotaur Books
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Generations after two boys witness a haunting act in the Icelandic lava fields, a grassroots revolution sparked by the economic crisis of 2009 challenges Magnus Jonson to unravel a web of conspirators who are killing off bankers and politicians.
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Lieutenant Eve Dallas is trying to sort out inexplicable events. Surviving witnesses talk about seeing things - monsters and swarms of bees. They describe sudden, overwhelming feelings of fear, rage, and paranoia. When forensics gives its report, the mass delusions make more sense: it appears the bar patrons were exposed to a cocktail of chemicals and illegal drugs that could drive anyone to temporary insanity - if not kill them outright.
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Chaperoning Temple Barr's visit to Chicago to meet fiancé Matt Devine's family, hard-boiled feline sleuth Midnight Louie is unexpectedly catnapped by an abductor with ties to an unsolved string of murders in Vegas and Temple's ex, the amnesiac magician Max Kinsella.
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No outsiders are ever admitted to the monastery of Saint-Gilbert-Entre-les-Loups, hidden deep in the wilderness of Québec, where two dozen cloistered monks live in peace and prayer. But when the renowned choir director is murdered, the lock on the monastery's massive wooden door is drawn back to admit Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir of the Sûreté du Québec. Before finding the killer, before restoring peace, the Chief must...
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Agatha Raisin mysteries volume 23
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Agatha has her eye on the local gardener, George Marston, but so do other women in their little Cotswold village. When George doesn't even show up for a date, Agatha goes looking for him, and finds his dead body in a compost heap. Rising to the occasion, Agatha rallies her little detective agency to find the killer, only to learn that George had quite a complicated love life. But murderously complicated? Well, if she can't have George, at least Agatha...
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A Hollywood movie company has come to town, and brought with it a huge cast, crew, and a troubled star. When she becomes the subject of a death threat, Jesse and the rest of the Paradise police department go on high alert. There's murder in the air, and it's Jesse's reputation as an uncompromising defender of the law - and his life - on the line.
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Stone Barrington novels volume 24
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Putnam's Sons
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English
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A star-studded gala will be attended by socialites, royalty, and billionaires from overseas - and according to phone conversations intercepted by the NSA, it may also have attracted the attention of international terrorists. To ensure the safety of his guests - and the city of Los Angeles - Stone may have to call in a few favours from his friends at the CIA.
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